Renaming an existing user with DSC about psdscresources HOT 6 CLOSED

So, DSC is used for monitoring the state of a machine and changing the configuration of the machine if necessary. Since there isn't really a way to monitor renaming a user this doesn't sound like a DSC scenario, but correct me if you have further implementation ideas on this in which this would fit for DSC.

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For security purposes I used to lock and rename the local default Administrator and guest account on windows servers. Of course you can do it also with a script that is executed by DSC but that's not the kind of DSC flair. Either you do it all by DSC or you don't. 👍

I thought of doing it like renaming an interface, like on the xNetworking module here.

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I don't think it's necessary to implement this into this module, I did it with the script resource. Thank you. 😄

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Hello, I would like to request this exact same thing. Should I make a whole new issue and add my use case there or do I re-open this issue with my use case?

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Hey @gaelicWizard, this as Mariah answered in 2017, this does not sound like a valid "Desired State" scenario. It sounds more like a "Transform"... It would probably best that you join the community on Slack/discord to discuss your scenario and benefit from the collective experience.

This specific resource module (PsDscResources) would not be the right place for such change anyway, as the only goal is to replace like for like the built-in DSC resources with security and bug fixes (no new feature as this issue suggests).
A better place would be xPsDesiredStateConfiguration which is more advanved than this resource module.

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Thanks! I didn't think about PsDscResources vs xPsDesiredStateConfiguration. I definitely mean to go there 👍

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